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OUR VIEW: IT TOOK more than a week to come, but when it came, it all of a sudden did not seem that important.

"It" was Fairfax MP Clive Palmer's apology to China for his attack on "Chinese mongrels" who "shoot their own people" and "haven't got a justice system".

The outspoken MP and leader of the Palmer United Party wrote to the Chinese ambassador in Australia, saying he most sincerely apologised for any insult to the Chinese people as a result of his comments made on live television last week.